So, here's the thing. My DH and I have been married for ten years, two DC's aged 8 and 6....
He's always been a little on the laid back side, shall we say! He's quite good at weekends with the kids and will happily come into town to do errands, go to library, help take kids to various clubs etc. BUT - and this is where the rant is going to start, when we're at home he's either sat in front of the telly, playing games on his phone or playing games on his Ipad. He's really reliant on electronic gadgetry of any variety and often uses the "let's watch a film with the kids" excuse to allow him to watch yet more telly (and then he just falls asleep after 20 minutes anyway)!
I've always wanted the kids to have some chill out time, whether that's by watching telly or playing on their DS's / using the laptop etc but try to restrict that to no more than 1-2hrs per day.
It seems that unless we're out and about it's a constant battle between him wanting to stare at a screen of some sort and me wanting him to do something (anything!) that does not involve having his backside plonked in a chair.
My son is not great at occupying himself and I think this is, in part, due to him never seeing his dad, whilst at home, occupying himself with anything other than a screen of some sort! But whenever I try to talk to DH about this he says I'm overreacting and that it's ok just to "chill out"! My arguement is that there are plenty of other ways for kids to relax eg. reading, colouring, jigsaws, playing games etc.
After four days of being in the house together over Christmas I can feel my levels of irritation on the rise over this issue, yet again!
So, really, is this normal for blokes and am I being unreasonable or is there a way I can talk to him about this in a way that doesn't make me sound like some kind of harridan?!